InsightStudio · Norms Series
Norms
RE|Safety
Rethinking safety norms. An operations-informed critique of prevailing safety norms.
Some of the most deeply held beliefs in safety management are rarely examined. RE|Safety applies an evidence-based, operations-informed lens to the assumptions, frameworks, and standard practices that shape the profession.
The SCAN Series · Norms
Challenging the assumptions that hold the profession back.
RE|Safety draws on operational evidence, research literature, and professional experience to scrutinise the norms that safety practitioners inherit — and rarely question.
01
The compliance trap
How rule-following replaced risk thinking — and why organisations that tick every box are still having incidents.
02
Zero harm revisited
An evidence-based review of aspirational safety targets — what the data says about their effect on reporting culture.
03
Safety II principles
Moving beyond failure analysis to understanding everyday work — what succeeds, why, and what we can learn from it.
04
The role of expertise
How professional safety knowledge is produced, validated, and sometimes captured by industry or regulatory interest.
05
New View vs Old View
The shift from blame and root cause to systems thinking — where consensus is forming and where debates remain live.
06
Norms in practice
Field observations on the gap between what is believed, what is stated, and what is actually done — and why it matters.
The SCAN Series
Complete the SCAN Series.
RE|Safety completes the four-series SCAN library — Standards, Culture, Analytics, and Norms. Subscribe to access the full InsightStudio alongside your live event data.